This is why we have Longbow. Smoke doesn't do squat against millimeter wave radar. And the smoke will blind his soldiers as much or more. Where's the advantage? Possibly in the assumption that Iraqi soldiers are much more likely to want to sacrifice their own lives than American soldiers.

He's neglected, perhaps, to consider that we can just carpet-bomb whole areas where we think they are. We can actually locate their armored forces with MMW radar and just rain cluster munitions down on them.

"You know, I think it's against regs to land with unexpended ordnance."

"Ya think?"

"Yeah."

"You know, that smoky patch ain't too large..."

"Yeah."

"Ya wanna?"

"Yeah."

"You know, I wish I had the scrap metal concession for this area."

"Yeah. Bombs away."

Thirty seconds later....

"Woo."

"Hmm. Looks like there was something under there, all right. That was what, eight good sized - make that nine. Ten. Eleven.... Boy, those flashes as the turret comes off just cuts through the smoke, don't they?"

"Yeah."

You can hide in the smoke - but you're going to die anyway. White flag time, boys! And MAKE IT A LARGE ONE!